What Matters

Drenched with sweat, sickly sweet sweat
                       her hair sticks to her head,

                                                                frizzed and full
                                                    Her body curves so pleasurably
                                  pale and plump in all the right places,
               the arch in her back is a calling like the wolf to the moon
Her lip is so full and quivers slightly
                 her words pull me forward

                            but all that matters is what stops me
                

                    The look in her eyes,

                                                  the slight tears

             All I want is to cradle her and fix whatever is wrong.
                   In this moment my world came together,
                                 Everything stopped spinning,
                                                     pointless worries went away
                                                                       and I knew that I loved her
              

                    I knew that her heart mattered more than my life.